Today, Congress enacted an unprecedented yet long-overdue law granting authors automatic termination of copyright transfers five years after they are granted, with a six-month notice period during which the original grantee may notify the author that the transfer is about to end and indicate whether they wish to renegotiate the agreement. This law supersedes the previous Section 203 of the 1976 Copyright Act. The new law is aptly titled the AUTHOR (Authors’ Universal Termination and Hassle-free Ownership Reclamation) Act, reflecting its Damascene conversion for an unprecedented empowerment of authors.